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When the Gentiles all around heard that the altar had been rebuilt and the sanctuary dedicated as it was before, they became very angry,
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and they determined to destroy the descendants of Jacob who lived among them. So they began to kill and destroy among the people.
3
But Judas made war on the descendants of Esau in Idumea, at Akrabattene, because they kept lying in wait for Israel. He dealt them a heavy blow and humbled them and despoiled them.
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He also remembered the wickedness of the sons of Baean, who were a trap and a snare to the people and ambushed them on the highways.
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They were shut up by him in their towers; and he encamped against them, vowed their complete destruction, and burned with fire their towers and all who were in them.
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